LSE in print
'Postgraduate premium' fuels vicious cycle of social inequality
Times Higher Education, 07/02/2013, p.8, Elizabeth Gibney
Those with postgraduate degrees are increasingly coming from richer family backgrounds, said the report's co-author Stephen Machin, professor of economics at University College London and research director at the London School of Economics and Political Science's Centre for Economic Performance. "Access to postgraduate education is becoming increasingly stratified by family income, and (recent postgraduates) are being paid more.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422605&c=1|
Postgraduate study costs 'threaten social mobility'
Financial Times, 07/02/2013, p.4, Helen Warrell
…this will result in reduced social mobility if those on low and middle incomes unable to afford postgraduate courses are thus priced out of jobs. The research, led by the London School of Economics and the University of Surrey, found 11 per cent of working 26 to 60-yearolds hold a postgraduate qualification.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2751789c-708c-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a.html#axzz2KCWB4Cd2|
Albert Hirschman
The Daily Telegraph, 07/02/2013, p.33, Unattributed
was born in Berlin on April 7 1915, but left Germany in 1933 for France, where he studied economics, finance and accounting. After taking up a one-year fellowship at the London School of Economics in 1935, he travelled to Barcelona to fight in the Spanish Civil War, and later completed his studies in Italy at the University of Trieste, where
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9853626/Albert-Hirschman.html|
Hostilities yet to reach pitch making Sino-¬Japanese war inevitable
Financial Times, 07/02/2013, p.10, Unattributed
Letter from David Stevenson, Dept of International History, London School of Economics.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6b94bbc8-6fc3-11e2-956b-00144feab49a.html|
The Distinguished Dozen
Times Higher Education, p.43, Richard Evans
12 universities will assign the title of "Regius professor" to an existing professor or appoint a new professor to take the chair and hold the title. The London School of Economics’ economics department is included.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
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My eyes turned red, it felt like they were being pin pricked then the pain got worse and my vision blurred...
The Sun, 07/02/2013, p.2, Unattributed
“The accountant, 23, from Battersea, SW London, soon had problems with her right eye. She says: 7 I HAD just finished my degree at the London School Of Economics and got my first job. With debt after university and before my first pay packet, I looked online for my contact lenses.” http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/4782779/Could-your-cheap-contact-lenses-be-putting-your-sight-at-risk.html|
Professor Frank Hahn
The Times, 07/02/2013, p.50
Bournemouth Grammar School Hahn went to Balliol College, Oxford, to read mathematics. He did Maths Mods but after a period of war service he changed course and went to the LSE to read economics. Hahn wrote his thesis in 1951 with Kaldor and then Robbins at the LSE in the time of Coase and Hayek. He came into his own
Appointments
Times Higher Education,07/02/2013, p.24
After leaving school at 16 with few qualifications, Tommy Geddes embarked on a career in the sector by accident after attending the London School of Economics on a Trades Union Congress scholarship in his mid-twenties.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode
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LSE online
US using secret airbase in Saudi Arabia to carry out drone strikes against al-Qa'ida militants in Yemen
The Independent (Web), 06/02/2013, Unattributed
the Yemeni government, the US does not need to get permission each time it launches a drone strike. Speaking with the BBC Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen, an expert on Gulf politics at the London School of Economics, said the agreement with the Saudi’s would almost certainly have come about in reaction to their own insecurities about Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula. He said: "The
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-using-secret-airbase
-in-saudi-arabia-to-carry-out-drone-strikes-against-alqaida-militants-in-yemen-8483045.html|
Higher fees will exclude poorer graduates from further study
The Times Online, 07/02/2013
affluent families were more likely to take higher degrees. The analysis was carried out by Professor Stephen Machin and Dr Joanne Lindley at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Surrey University. “These patterns of rising wage differentials for those with the highest levels of education, coupled with rising higher educational inequality by family income,
Postgraduate degrees 'expected'
MSN UK (Web), 07/02/2013
Trust suggests. But the study raises concerns that students from lower and middle-class families are being priced out, leaving postgraduate study the preserve of the better-off. The research, by academics at the London School of Economics and Surrey University, looked at levels of education in Britain and the US over time, and the wage premium of holding higher qualifications. The findings show that
http://money.uk.msn.com/postgraduate-degrees-expected|
Tunisia in turmoil after assassination
ABC Online - Barney Porter - Feb 7 at 4:55 GMT
PORTER: That's also the view of Fawaz Gerges, the director of the Middle Eastern Centre at the London School of Economics.FAWAZ GERGES: This is the first political assassination in post Ben Ali revolution...
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2013/s3685234.htm|
The corruption debate continues
Yahoo! Malaysia - Feb 6 at 16:16 GMT
growth in studies, however scholarly. Let us take a simple example, courtesy of Professor Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, who gave a talk at the University of Malaya some months back.He gave...
http://my.news.yahoo.com/corruption-debate-continues-160000993--sector.html|
In-Out Debate: What Britain Really Gets From EU Membership
Spiegel Online - Feb 6 at 17:56 GMT
"All thse studies have to be treated with caution," said Iain Begg, an economics professor at the London School of Economics. The economic consequences of an EU exit depend on the subsequent arrangements Britain...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/analysis-of-economic-benefits-of-
britain-s-eu-membership-a-881813.html#ref=rss|
Prof. Gabriel Olawoyin to speak on God in my life at Archbishop Vining Church Cathedral
The Guardian Nigeria - Feb 7 at 0:30 GMT
of the royal family of IIe-Ife, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Law from the London School of Economics in 1965 and 1966 respectively.“A man with an interesting academic history, Olawoyin...
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=112663:prof-gabriel-olawoyin-to-speak-
on-god-in-my-life-at-archbishop-vining-church-cathedral&catid=3:metro&Itemid=558|
Comparing the Divide: England's shrinking middle class struggles to hold on in Middlesbrough
Cleveland News-Herald - Feb 6 at 15:48 GMT
of national income, according to OECD figures. How unequal is British society today? Professor John Hills of the London School of Economics, answered the question with another question: "Do you get Downton...
http://news-herald.com/articles/2013/02/06/news/doc51118c7dd522c354261188.txt|
Opinion: David Cameron's euro-nemesis
Warsaw Business Journal - Feb 6 at 19:54 GMT
uncertainty for Britain and its European partners. Peter Sutherland is the chairman of Goldman Sachs International and the London School of Economics.
http://www.wbj.pl/article-61716-opinion-david-camerons-euro-nemesis.html
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Forget golf and sailing, this retiree focuses on real estate investing
Globe and Mail - DEIRDRE KELLY - Feb 6 at 19:07 GMT
a bid to be independent.” Even though armed with a master’s degree in political economy from the London School of Economics, the sociable, stalwart and still handsome former bureaucrat stumbled badly when...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/retirement-rrsps/forget-golf-and-sailing-this-retiree-focuses-on-real-estate-investing/article8251880/?cmpid=rss1|
Giù le mani dalla pillola
La Repubblica - repubblicawww@repubblica.it - Feb 6 at 19:02 GMT
negli Usa cominciò il 9 maggio 1960. "La pillola che libera il sesso" titolò allora Time. Secondo la London School of Economics di Londra è l'invenzione che ha più contribuito all'emancipazione femminile, e...
http://www.repubblica.it/rubriche/parla-con-lei/2013/02/06/news/gi_le_mani_dalla_pillola-52098280/?rss|
Manuel Almeida
Asharq alawsat - Feb 6 at 17:45 GMT
Al-Awsat Global Editions. Mr. Almeida has recently completed his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has also taught. He is currently...
http://www.asharq-e.com/news.asp?section=2&id=32821|
Und jetzt zu den Aussichten für die nächsten Jahre
Finews.ch - Feb 6 at 14:26 GMT
Das zumindest ist das Ergebnis des «Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2013», welches die Credit Suisse gemeinsam mit der London School of Economics veröffentlicht hat. Die Autoren Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh...
http://www.finews.ch/news/finanzplatz/10866-credit-suisse-investment-return
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ORTSTERMIN : Keine Deals
Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten - Matthias Thibaut - Feb 6 at 7:59 GMT
Am Vorabend hat Peer Steinbrück locker vor Studenten der London School of Economics über die Finanzkrise doziert. Nun sitzt der Kanzlerkandidat nach seinem Vortrag im Prachtsaal der Deutschen Botschafterresidenz...
http://www.finews.ch/news/finanzplatz/10866-credit-suisse-investment-return
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LSE on TV/radio
BBC 2 (6 Feb)
The Daily Politics
Footage of David Cameron quoting from Len McClusky’s speech at LSE.
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Tony Travers commented on Crossrail development.